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alacritty-themes: A CLI tool to set themes for alacritty terminal

Rajasegar Chandran on June 20, 2020

In this post we are going to take a look at a new CLI tool I have created for customizing colors for your alacritty terminal. What is ala...

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Moin Hussain Moti • Jun 20 '20

Hi, thanks for the awesome plugin, however, I am getting this error on running it on Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon.

internal/fs/utils.js:220
throw err;
^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir './themes'
at Object.readdirSync (fs.js:854:3)
at Object. (/home/moinmoti/.nvm/versions/node/v12.13.1/lib/node_modules/alacritty-themes/bin/cli.js:7:19)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:995:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:815:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:727:14)
at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1047:10)
at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:11 {
errno: -2,
syscall: 'scandir',
code: 'ENOENT',
path: './themes'
}

Moin Hussain Moti • Jun 20 '20

So it requires the user to create a "themes" directory and save all themes in ".yml" individual files. And the command must be called in the parent directory of "themes". I think these instructions should be mentioned in the README.

Rajasegar Chandran • Jun 21 '20 • Edited

Sorry for the trouble, it was a bug due to the file system path reference, it's fixed in the latest version 1.1.4, please check and let me know. Thanks a lot for reporting that...
And you don't have to create any folder for themes or copy files, just install the program and run the command or use npx directly

Angelhpascual • Aug 18 '20

I have this error

(node:51812) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/angelhpascual/themes/alacritty.yml'
at Object.openSync (fs.js:443:3)
at Object.readFileSync (fs.js:343:35)
at inquirer.prompt.then (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/alacritty-themes/index.js:59:37)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)
(node:51812) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:51812) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

some fix for that? Thank you!

Rajasegar Chandran • Aug 18 '20

Fixed it here, please try with the latest version
github.com/rajasegar/alacritty-the...

Joshua Byrd • Jul 27 '22

This is amazing! Thanks. I love the way you can preview the theme right in the terminal. I had to move my config file from ~/.alacritty.yml to the ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml dir but then it worked great!